Rape cases reported in Roane County

A Roane County grand jury indicted four men on sex-related criminal offenses against children during a recent grand jury session.

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By Beverly Majors/The Oak Ridger

Oakridger - Oak Ridge, TN

By Beverly Majors/The Oak Ridger

Posted Oct. 31, 2013 at 5:33 PM

By Beverly Majors/The Oak Ridger
Posted Oct. 31, 2013 at 5:33 PM

by Beverly Majors

bmajors@oakridger.com

A Roane County grand jury indicted four men on sex-related criminal offenses against children during a recent grand jury session.

Indictments were returned against a father and son, 72-year-old George William Miles Sr., 207 Elm St., Kingston, and 49-year-old George William Miles Jr., 180 Charley Newberry Road, Lancing, as well as Michael Jay Runions, 34, 1119 Old North Kentucky St., Kingston, and William Eric Brownlow, 50, 291 Shady Drive, Harriman.

Miles Sr. was indicted on six counts of statutory rape by authority and Miles Jr. was indicted on six counts of aggravated statutory rape.

Indictments against the two men indicate the alleged offenses happened between January 2011 and June 2013 and the victims, who are sisters, were between 13 and 18 at the time of the offenses.

Records indicate both men had sexual relations with the young victims and Miles Sr. had “parental, or custodial authority, over the victim(s) and used that authority to accomplish” the sexual relations.

Brownlow was indicted on three counts of the rape of a child. The victim in that case was 12 at the time of at least one of the alleged rapes, which reportedly happened between April 2012 and October 2013.

At the time of the rapes, the victim lived at a Roane State Highway, Rockwood, address with her mother.

Runions was also indicted on four counts of the rape of a child. The victim in his case is also reportedly under the age of 12 and a resident of Kingston.